ETA when I googled her blog and name, she posted on MANY other blogs of real families facing real tragedies touting her blog. As someone who has blogged about losing one daughter and nearly losing another, I am shaking with rage.
I know normal procedure is to delete posts if a poster requests it. However, given the level of deceit in regards to soliciting money for an alleged dying/dead daughter, it doesn't feel appropriate to erase all traces. Others may feel differently about it but it does feel like extenuating circumstances in this situation. On the other hand, past precedent and all that...
I just want to chime in and say I think it's important that stuff like this is able to stay up in some circumstances.
It would've been much harder to make the connection here if TN had deleted the old threads outing her, including the pic; or her old threads with the shameless promotion of her blog about her "child lost to brain cancer." We can still reference all of that stuff, thankfully, but not so on proboards. So when you run up against, say, another incarnation of Vaba/JLM, there's no original material to cross-check.
I feel like I remember there not being direct solicitation for money for "Avi," but that people suspected teachkinder wanted all the clicks to monetize the blog and that was one of the reasons to spread the link around.
I'd love to see her investigated by the woman from Warrior Eli Hoax who catches catfish, particularly those who exploit or lie about their children and/or health.
I remember this time last year, when she tried to put her son in preschool, and he understandably flipped out.
I was like, what do you expect, this kid's never been alone? He doesn't want a goddamn sticker chart to sit in circle time.
I got mildly flamed for it by token and others, so I assumed she had a lot of genuine supporters.
I remember this too. I was like " You haven't taken a DUMP alone in like 3 years, how can he handle preschool" but then I felt like awful about myself for questioning another mother's choices and being Mommy warish and a DICK so I just shut my mouth.
She still has 26 mutual friends with me on FB! Plenty of moles
I knee-jerked unfriended her. Part of me wishes I hadn't for a day or two to see how this unfolds and her response (or lack of??) but I was sick thinking she could see pictures of my kids and "know" me via FB. Ugh she is sick and we were all conned. Makes me disgusted.
If this is real... holy crap. I would like to see her come back here to explain herself, so I would not support an immediate ban.
I don't have anything else to contribute except that her advice about drinking at least 150 oz of water per day always stuck in my craw. Even La Leche League says to just drink to sate your thirst.
Signed, chump who bought $50 oatmeal cookies.
OMG I tried this and only made it to like 80 ounces before I was dying! Still did nothing for my milk supply ;-)
I was like people really drink that much?! No wonder my milk supply sucks!
Listen... people speaking up about her making snarky / inappropriate comments at times, being weird about breastfeeding, her cookies sucking, etc. would not have changed anything IMO. Because ultimately those things are meh. I mean they aren't flattering to her but they are forgivable.
Now, I can't explain the post on CEP from a year ago going under the radar.
The post from a year ago was made on H+F, in a randoms thread. Unless you go there frequently, I can see why it was missed by A LOT of people here and on other boards. B
Guys, we better stop just in case. We wouldn't want anyone to possibly be suicidal. In case you need me, I'll be on the Disney board and I'm never coming back. You're all mean girls.
Sike, I'm back.
OMG I wanted to say something so bad BUT IM ALWAYS THE MEAN GIRL.
Yeah that was me. Since the mod here said nothing could immediately be done I told my board about it.
Gotcha. In no way was I calling out your actions (or anyone else's). I'm just shocked that more people didn't pick up on it and address it on MMM. This whole thing is shocking.
I was in that thread, FFS. I feel like I chat more with @vtcupcake than I do with my coworkers who sit a few feet away. How the hell did I miss that?!